deaf
/diːf/ adjective B1- Unable (or partially able) to hear. · My brother has been deaf since sustaining injuries in the war.· It's important for TV shows to provide closed captioning for the deaf.
- Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive. · Those people are deaf to reason.
- Of or relating to the community of deaf people.
Comparative deafer · Superlative deafest
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Hour after hour passed away, and slowly Dorothy got over her fright; but she felt quite lonely, and the wind shrieked so loudly all about her that she nearly became deaf.
She is, as she has told us, somewhat deaf; but none the less she mentioned in her evidence that she did hear something like a door slamming half an hour before the alarm was given.
Deaf are his ears with the moil of the mill.
All these raptured voyages of exploration were made in the odd half hours which she was allowed for play, and Anne talked Matthew and Marilla half-deaf over her discoveries.
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